Pericranial muscle tenderness is associated with widespread pain sensitivity, psychiatric comorbidity, and dysfunctional psychological •• responses to pain In healthy young adult females
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PMT was assessed by manual palpation modified to include the use of a fingertip palpometer.IO·11 Five pericranial muscles (temporalis, masseter, suboccipital. posterior cervical. middle trapezius) were palpated bilaterally with a fingertip pressure of 500 g/cm2• The participant was asked to report tenderness for each palpation site on a scale of 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain imaginable). The sum of the ratings (total tenderness score: ITS) for the 10 sites was used as the PMT score for each assessment giving the ITS a range of 0-100. Psychological measures
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